Sunday, June 15, 2014

Sunday morning toons: The kindness of strangers

Both the Republican House leadership
structure and the northern half of Iraq had the thoughtfulness
to go kaflooie early enough in the week that political cartoonists
could have them teed up by today, for which we here at p3 are
appropriately grateful.

Unfortunately, school shootings are now
happening with enough frequency and regularity that there's never a
deadline problem there anymore, a fact for which we are not grateful.

Comics is hard dollars: In which
Roy Edroso chronicles disgruntled conservative cartoonists as they
take to the pages of the Wall Street Journal to long
for the good old days of the industry's self-sensoring Comics
Code Authority as a way for them to get equal footing with their
hippy-leftie competition. Because, you know, Mallard
Fillmore is every bit as funny as, say, those peacenik
free-love feminazi do-gooders at Doonesbury,
meaning that if it isn't quite as popular it can only be the result
of political correctness and the liberal media. Or something.

Available on Netflix:

Note: No one will be seated during the horrifying Berke Breathed self-loathing scene!

Tom Tomorrow presents Sparky the
Penguin and Chuckles the Sensible Woodchuck on why it's sensible to
keep
the Gitmo prisoners there pretty much forever.

Weekly animation: Minimalist
on almost every level, Simon's Cat shorts still manage to crack me
up. "Pawtraits" is directed by the eponymous Simon Tofield
and animated by Nick Wade. Like it? Enjoy
some more.

Nothstine is a writer, editor, political junkie, and renegade professor. Contact him here.

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